What is "expanded"

Usage examples of "expanded".

What you call affectless irony is for me a fabulous adventure, a rush of sexual excitement: a frenzied yet precise exploration of the unimagined depths of cyberspace, and of the expanded dimensions of my skin.

He grew smaller and smaller as the gulf between them expanded, his aimless humming fading until he disappeared altogether.

I have for many months been using my influence at Washington to get this diplomatic see expanded into an ambassadorship, with the idea, of course th--But never mind.

I will divulge the first axiom of our trade, which indeed can be expanded to a universal application.

Even as Bink watched, one of the lakes expanded slightly, making itself seem cooler and deeper, a better place for a swim.

In one spot, where a clump of deodar pines stood, the wall was shifting as the pines expanded outward.

He was on a first-name basis with most of the population of Snake by now, and as he felt more and more at home among the Edenites, his hitherto reclusive personality expanded like a flower in the sun.

The ball expanded to englobe her for a moment, then contracted and returned to its place on the stone.

Surprised, I stepped back, but it expanded to my size and englobed me.

As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea how they might be readily turned into cash and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land and shingle palaces in the wilderness.

Without spin, its event horizon expanded, filling up the equatorial belt where the ergosphere had been.

Bredon, the ever-polite, expanded and assumed his gibus during the descent, apparently for the express purpose of taking it off to her when he emerged.

He watched with unflagging vigilance, and it was only when the hexapod expanded its wings as if for flight that he prepared to imprison it in the hollow of his hand.

Concentric shells of color expanded around Rubeus, but he stood arrogant and irrefrangible as a rock.

The eyes of Kark Al expanded in blazing emotion that held the helpless man and girl paralyzed.